Odd web site behaviour using any browser in FC2 and FC3

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Dec 7 19:27:24 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 14:04 -0500, Greg Guldenschuh wrote:
> Rahul,
>    Although the specific reference supplied was not the issue, you pointed 
> me close enough to the answer that I found it.  The article you mentioned 
> showed how to set one of thewin_scaling parameters.  While looking around in 
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4 I found a file named tcp_ecn which contained the value 
> "1" I changed it to "0" using the echo command in the article and that fixed 
> the problem I was having with the site www.galottery.com.

Ah, the old ECN problem. That site must be behind an old, buggy router
or firewall.

More on this at:
http://www.icir.org/floyd/ecnProblems.html

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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